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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. WILLIAMS, OF JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO OAMBRIA IRON COMPANY.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING OFF HORSE SHOE-BLANKS.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,252, dated March 9, 1880.'

Application filed December 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. WILLIAMS, of J ohnstown, in the county of Cambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful improvements in Machinery for Guttin g oft'-Horseshoe-Blanks, of which the following is a specification.

The subject-of my invention is a machine constructed with one or more pairs of saws adjustable on their mandrel, so that they may be set accurately at a distance asunder corresponding with the desired length for the horseshoe-blanks, said mandrel being mounted in a moving frame to permit the advancing and retracting of the saws to cause them to cut through a suitably-held blank-bar, and then retire.

The blank-bar is held in a gage having a pocket to receive the toe-calk, which pocket, being placed centrally between the planes of the saws, insures the cutting off of the blank of precisely equal length on each side of the toe-call: or center.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of the machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the gage or blank-bar holder. Fig. etis a perspective view of a blank-bar in inverted position.

A is a bed affording bearings for a vertical oscillating frame, B in the upper part of which are boxes b for the mandrel G of a pair of saws, D D, which are fixed thereon between collars E E, clamped upon the saws -by nuts F F, the screw-thread c on the mandrel extending from end to end, or to any necessary length to permit the adjustment of the saws thereon as to position and distance asunder.

G represents a driving pulley, which in practice is operated by a belt so connected and arranged as to permit the forwardandbackward horizontal movement of the sawmandrel without interfering with the running of the saws.

The frame is guided in its oscillating movement by studs h, working in standards H, rising from the bed A. The oscillating movement of the frame on its center in the bed A is produced by a rock-shaft, I, operated by a lever, J carrying arms K K, connected by rods L L with the upper part of the frame B.

M represents the gage to receive the blank bar. This is mounted adj ustably on a standard, N, in which the rock-shaft I has its bearlugs.

The gage M is constructed with supports m m for the blank-bar O, and with a pocket, m, to receive one of the toe-calks 0. thereof.

The blank-bar represented in Fig. 4: is produced by rolling after the manner described in Letters Patent No. 182,732, granted to me on the 26th day of September, 1876, with sets of pyramidal calks separated by elongated calks, so that by cutting the bar through every alternate elongated calk, as indicated by dotthe length of the blank. The blank-bar O is then placed in the gage M, prepared to receive it, on the standard N, with one of the toe-calks o in the pocket m. The saws are then drawn forward by a downward movement of the lever J, causing them to pass through the blankbar on the dotted lines 1 1, Fig. 4, so as to saw off a shoe-blank accurately to the re quired length. The blank is then set with the next toe-calk 0 in the pocket m, so that the next motion of the saws will produce the cuts indicated by the lines 2 2, and so on till the bar is used up.

The machine may, if preferred, be made with additional saws on the same mandrel to adapt it for cutting off two or more blanks at once.

Having thus described my invention, Qthe following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The adjustable gage M, constructed with 3. The machine for sawing ofl horseshoea notch or pocket, m, to receive the toe-ealk, blanks, constructed and operating in the man-- for the purpose of centering the blank, and ner and for the purposes explained.

with the blank-supports m m, as explained. JOHN R. WILLIAMS. 5 2. The combination of the rage M, oseillat- Witnesses:

ing frame B, and aws D D, as and for the OGTAVIUS KNIGHT,

purposes set forth. WALTER ALLEN. 

